Tolpis

Plant Characteristics
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Cultivation

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Scientific Names

Read about Tolpis in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
Tolpis (name unexplained). Compositae. Herbs, annual and perennial, allied to Crepis, with showy yellow heads, suitable for the flower-garden or border, but apparently not offered in this country; species about 15, in the Medit. region, and the Canaries and Azores. St. rarely somewhat woody: lvs. mostly radical or on lower part of st., entire, dentate or pinnatifid, the upper ones few and narrow: heads homogamous, ligulate, the involucre campanulate with narrow bracts in several series; receptacle naked or pitted: achene subterete, 6-8-ribbed, the pappus of 8-10 very slender setae. T. barbata, Gaertn. (Crepis barbata, Linn.), from S. Eu., is an erect branched annual with attractive yellow heads, the outer scales of involucre subulate: lvs. lanceolate, dentate, the upper ones near the fl.-heads long-subulate: blooms from midsummer till frost. B.M.35. ^CH The above text is from the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. It may be out of date, but still contains valuable and interesting information which can be incorporated into the remainder of the article. Click on "Collapse" in the header to hide this text.

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